Author: crossley
Date: Tue Jun 7 21:37:43 2005
New Revision: 189521
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=189521&view=rev
Log:
Tweak some items as result of Ferdinand's feedback.
Modified:
forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt
Modified: forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs/forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt?rev=189521&r1=189520&r2=189521&view=diff
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--- forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt (original)
+++ forrest/trunk/etc/RELEASE_PROCESS.txt Tue Jun 7 21:37:43 2005
@@ -100,7 +100,8 @@
Upload and announcement
-----------------------
- - Upload the tarballs, the *.asc and *.md5 files, **and the RELEASE-NOTES**
+ - Upload the release: the *.tar.gz, the *.zip, the *.asc and *.md5 files,
+ and the RELEASE-NOTES-x.y.txt
to www.apache.org at /www/www.apache.org/ dist/forrest/
Each PMC member has a server account and belongs to the forrest group.
The process is documented at http://www.apache.org/~bodewig/mirror.html
@@ -117,10 +118,12 @@
- Wait for the various mirrors to pick up the new files.
For some mirrors, this takes only a few hours. However others are slow.
- How long to wait is a tradeoff.
+ How long to wait is a tradeoff, e.g. 8 hours.
See "Status of mirrors" http://www.apache.org/mirrors/
+ When you see that a good proportion of the mirrors have updated,
+ then do the announcement.
- - Edit the forrest/site-author/content/xdocs/mirrors.ihtml
+ - Edit the forrest/site-author/content/xdocs/mirrors.html
- Edit the Forrest home page in the "News and events" section.
- Rebuild and publish the Forrest website as normal.
FIXME: There is a bug (FOR-300) in the forrest build which generates
@@ -131,9 +134,11 @@
cd /www
svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/site/0.7 forrest.apache.org
- - Edit xml-site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/news.xml and record the
+ - Update the xml.apache.org website
+ Edit xml-site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/news.xml and record the
announcement, and then commit the new HTML to xml-site/targets/forrest
Note that they use forrest-0.6 to build their website.
+ See http://xml.apache.org/guidelines.html#website-top
- Send announcement email. Typically this is sent as:
To: dev@forrest.apache.org, user@forrest.apache.org, announce@apache.org,
@@ -143,7 +148,8 @@
!! Never mention the URL www.apache.org/ dist/ in email.
Use the template at etc/announcement.txt
Use your spelling checker!
-
+ Sign the email (e.g. GPG) if possible.
+
See previous announcements:
0.2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-apache-announce&m=103746673310573
0.3 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-apache-announce&m=104399934113331
@@ -172,12 +178,13 @@
| Forrest Site Builder |
| 0.8-dev |
- - Remove the old dist files from the dist/forrest/ directory.
- It has already been archived at archives.apache.org
+ - Remove old dist files from the /www/www.apache.org/dist/forrest/ directory.
+ They have already been archived at archive.apache.org/dist/forrest/
+ - Do some Jira administration (need to be in the jira-administrators grorp):
- Tweak the "release" versions via "admin" interface at our Jira.
+ 0.7-dev is renamed 0.7 and 0.8 becomes 0.8-dev
- Review the Issues for the old version and move any Incomplete ones up.
-
- Change the "fixfor" attribute to the next verion for the
"project.issues-rss-url" RSS feed in forrest.properties